meditation-adjacent (more)

Note-maker, map-maker (MOCs). LYT Kit. TV editing (Better Call Saul, AE), Pink Gloves Boxing. PREV: engineer, college FB all-american, 3x national champ, coach. https://twitter.com/NickMilo/ (more)

Perhaps the opposite of a WikiBook. The idea is to write the book in a Wiki (maybe a public WikiLog, maybe a Private Wiki), then produce a "packaged" EBook file (for Marketing purposes). (more)

Julian Bleecker will be running a GeneralSeminar session on "Futures of Human Organization". (more)

Fiction which uses Design objects to make a future scenario (not just SciFi) more believable/natural. (more)

Ash Maurya: Crafting Attention-Grabbing Unique Value Propositions (UVP). The first battle for any product is getting noticed by customers. This isn’t the job of your demo or solution but your unique value proposition (UVP). (more)

Tired of Dating Apps (dating market), Some Turn to Google Docs. Writers of so-called Date-Me Docs, which can read like 1,000-word versions of the personal ads of yore, hope for a more meaningful connection than a swipe might allow. (more)

Ash Maurya: Position Against Your True Competition to Win the Customer. (more)

Ash Maurya: The Art of Experiment Design. Running experiments is a key activity for continuous innovation. But simply running a bunch of experiments is not enough. (more)

My current venture is Muse.app, an infinite canvas for thinking. In the past I made the Ink and Switch research lab and Heroku for web app deployment. https://adamwiggins.com/

In distributed computing, a conflict-free replicated data type (CRDT) is a data structure that is replicated across multiple computers in a network, with the following features: The application can update any replica independently, concurrently and without coordinating with other replicas. An algorithm (itself part of the data type) automatically resolves any inconsistencies that might occur. Although replicas may have different state at any particular point in time, they are guaranteed to eventually converge... The NoSQL distributed databases Redis, Riak and Cosmos DB have CRDT data types. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_type

aka Secure Scuttlebutt - Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) is a peer-to peer communication protocol, mesh network, and self-hosted social media ecosystem.[3][4] Each user hosts their own content and the content of the peers they follow, which provides fault tolerance and eventual consistency.[5] Messages are digitally signed and added to an append-only list of messages published by an author.[6] SSB is primarily used for implementing distributed social networks, and utilizes cryptography to assure that content remains unforged as it is propagated through the network. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Scuttlebutt (more)

Secure Scuttlebutt

Ben Hunt: The Long Now, Pt. 3 - Is This Normal? Asking for a Friend. Today’s note is about the micro. Today’s note is about getting back to the Real. (more)

Ben Hunt: Too Clever By Half. The smartest animals on my farm aren’t really on my farm at all. They’re the coyotes who live in the woods. (more)

Ben Hunt: Virtue Signaling, or … Why Clinton is in Trouble. Common Knowledge today: Donald Trump is the Yoko Ono of the Republican Party. Common Knowledge tomorrow: Hillary Clinton is the Yoko Ono of the Democratic Party. (more)

Virtue signaling is the expression of a conspicuous, self-righteous moral viewpoint with the intent of communicating good character... According to the Cambridge Dictionary, virtue signalling is "an attempt to show other people that you are a good person, for example by expressing opinions that will be acceptable to them, especially on social media... indicating that one has virtue merely by expressing disgust or favour for certain political ideas or cultural happenings".[4] The expression is often used to imply by the user that the virtue being signalled is exaggerated or insincere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_signalling

A Big Study About Honesty Turns Out To Be Based On Fake Data. A landmark study that endorsed a simple way to curb cheating is going to be retracted nearly a decade later after a group of scientists found that it relied on faked data. According to the 2012 paper, when people signed an honesty declaration at the beginning of a form, rather than the end, they were less likely to lie... The paper also bolstered the reputations of two of its authors — Max Bazerman, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, and Dan Ariely, a psychologist and behavioral economist at Duke University — as leaders in the study of decision-making, irrationality, and unethical behavior. (more)

Erik Hoel: Writing for outlets isn't worth it anymore. There’s been a recent wave who’ve stopped contributing to outlets and moved to newsletters like this, such as myself. (more)

Ben Hunt: Critical State Theory. I believe two things... (more)